The Bhagavatam replaces the moral law of varnashrama dharma, with all its restraints, with the guidelines of the bhakti marg, thus opening the realm of ecstatic love of God to all and making the Bhagavatam a veritable New Testament of the East.

When I asked Srila Sridhara Maharaja for some seva, he said to me, ‘Swami Maharaja (Srila Prabhupada) has given you everything; go and start a preaching mission on his behalf and I will be in the background to help you.’

Srila Prabhupada said on a number of occasions that he identified with sakhya rasa. He also wrote a poem to Krishna in his intimate moments expressing the desire for sakhya rasa. We find no equivalent stated aspiration on his part for any other rasa.